Happy New Year, Dmoore5556. Thank you for working to update and edit all of the bowl game articles! Cheers, Bulldawg (talk) 05:20, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

• @BullDawg2021: Happy New Year. Thank you for your contributions as well, it's team effort! Dmoore5556 (talk) 19:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Does every Sugar Bowl not have an article? Cwater1 (talk) 20:59, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@Cwater1: they do, and the links are provided in the Notes column. It's the standard table structure used in bowl game articles, see Rose Bowl Game, Cotton Bowl Classic, and such. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:06, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

I should have known. Apologies. Cwater1 (talk) 21:11, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

No problem, I appreciate you checking. Dmoore5556 (talk) 21:15, 1 January 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, Dmoore5556!

The most recent edits by another user to last year's Sox season includes removing lots of information as well as the collapsable format of the team's transactions and game results. Are these edits good? I find it hard to navigate the page. Is it in line with MOS:DONTHIDE as the user suggests? Prior seasons have not been changed.

Figured I'd ask you (thanks as always for all your Sox-edits throughout the season). Go Sox! MattFry7 (talk) 22:10, 5 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@MattFry7: hi, I don't have any serious objection to the changes that were made. I see two chunks of changes: removing the use of collapse, and trimming the list of transactions. On the first: I feel that selective/focused use of collapse is fine, especially for content such as month-by-month summaries, but some editors go by a strict reading of MOS:DONTHIDE. Now that the season is over, it's arguably "better" to expand all the sections, whereas during the season there is logic to making it easy for users to see the "current" month by collapsing other months. On the second: the transactions section of the article was primarily maintained by editor BritishBornBaseballer, who captured pretty much every roster move the team made. It's not unreasonable (in my view) to scale that back and just note transactions affecting personnel on the 40-man roster, or some other "reasonable" yardstick, as long as such criteria are applied in a consistent manner. You could certainly reach out to the editor who made the changes as well. Thanks. Dmoore5556 (talk) 00:29, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

In my editing, I often look for consistency across different seasons, which is how this initially caught my attention. I better understand that perspective now. Thank you for your thorough answer! MattFry7 (talk) 15:24, 6 February 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey Dmoore! Just thought I'd reach out and let you know that you will see me around the Red Sox season page again this year helping in any way I can. I may not always get to the game log first but any other little spruce-ups like the game summaries, statistics, the upcoming games schedule, I'm always down to help with any of that. These past five or six months have been by far my most productive period on Wikipedia in a very long time, especially where sports are concerned, I've been doing NHL, NBA, college hoops, you name it – and now that baseball is back I'm ready to channel this new wave of Wiki energy into the world’s greatest sporting organization. :)

Hope all is well for you up there in the Granite State – greetings from SoCal where it's been sunny and upper 60s the whole winter! ;) I will be back in New England though for 4 1/2 months starting June 3, and I will probably be even more active on the Sox page then because I'll have access to local media as well as online and will be more in tune with the results as they happen because I'll be able to turn the channel to almighty NESN and gobble up all the games haha.

Cheers! And here's to an exciting 2025 campaign! It's been a rough start, but I'm confident we (and Raffy) will get out of this early slump!

yours sincerely, RedSoxFan274 _{(talk~contribs)} 14:45, 1 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RedSoxFan274: thanks much for the note, great to hear you have be so active on Wikipedia. I'm not currently planning to do game-by-game summaries for the Red Sox as I did the past few seasons, as I've got a few other items (Wikipedia or otherwise) consuming my time currently. Please free to contribute there, if you'd like. I may jump in from time to time, maybe to summarize a series if it otherwise isn't covered. I hope your visit to New England goes well. You may want to check about NESN access at where ever you will be staying. Comcast, for example, moved NESN from their standard cable tier to their "premier" tier back in January, meaning a lot of folks who used to get it, may not have it any more. There is alternately NESN 360 as a streaming option, but they are pricey at $30 per month (although perhaps a bit more palatable if you consider it $1 per Red Sox game, roughly). Take care! Dmoore5556 (talk) 03:47, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Hey, good to hear from you. Yeah, the cable-vs.-streaming war is being lost by cable at a rather alarming rate, seems to me. If I had Comcast basic cable and they dropped NESN, well you'd better believe I'd be dropping them! Lol. Fortunately we own a home back in Massachusetts (God this is making me sound rich isn’t it I swear I'm not haha) and we always get Xfinity set up when we're there, so the Comcast thing won't be an issue for us. Thanks for letting me know about the season-by-season recaps — that's one of the things that I think really has made the Red Sox season pages stand out from other teams' season pages lately, so I'll try to pitch in more there and hopefully, with the help of a couple more editors, we can keep that section up and running.

Can you believe how awful the Bruins have been this year? Ten losses in a row – mercy! Well, maybe they'll snatch a high draft pick instead of being stuck in limbo. And at least we'll have important Celtics games to carry us through the spring – though the road to a repeat will be difficult if we have to go through Cleveland and especially Oklahoma City. But now I’m just rambling!

Cheers, – RedSoxFan274 _{(talk~contribs)} 07:15, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

@RedSoxFan274: Xfinity is the trade name that Comcast primarily uses now; I still call them Comcast since that's how I've always known them. You may want to check about the status of NESN in whichever of their tiers you normally subscribe to. I haven't watched much of the Bruins this season but they certainly have come off the rails. It will be interesting to see if/how they re-tool in the offseason! Dmoore5556 (talk) 15:13, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]

Ruh roh. I thought they were two separate entities. Well, thanks for the heads up! I’ll look into it. :) – RedSoxFan274 _{(talk~contribs)} 15:18, 4 April 2025 (UTC)[reply]